In case anyone was wondering...

[dreamshark]

...the geese haven't gotten around to flying south yet. At least the ones in my Eden Prairie office park haven't. I saw three of them today, daintily picking their way around the patches of snow. These aren't pampered geese that live in the heated runoff from a power plant or something like that, just run of the mill suburban office park Canada geese.

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[mizzlaurajean.livejournal.com]

I notice their prolonged stay too. My grampa says as long as they can find open water they will stay. He says they don't mind the cold.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

They'll stay as long as there's open water.

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[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

There may have been open water last week, but I don't think there's any now, at least not in the immediate vicinity. The middle of Lake Minnetonka may never freeze at this rate, but little sloughs are frozen.

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

Yes; when I was observing the ducks at Powderhorn, they'd stay until the last bit of open water iced over. They'd even keep it open longer the way they swam constantly in the diminishing pool of it.